3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Noi non veneriamo né le Grazie né le Parche, ma la Moda.

Sotto un governo che imprigiona ingiustamente non importa chi, il vero posto dove può vivere un uomo giusto è la prigione.

[...] dopotutto non erano tanto nobili, ma trattavano il ladro nella stessa maniera in cui il ladro li trattava.

Grow wild according to thy nature.

Старость годится в наставники не больше, если не меньше, чем юность, — она не столькому научилась, сколько утратила.

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

We commonly do not remember that it is … always the first person that is speaking.

Живя в роскоши, ничего не создашь, кроме предметов роскоши, будь то в сельском хозяйстве, торговле, литературе или искусстве.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.